Gina Lollobrigida Overview:

Legendary actress, Gina Lollobrigida, was born Luigina Lollobrigida on Jul 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy. Lollobrigida died at the age of 95 on Jan 16, 2023 in Rome, Italy .

MINI BIO:

Raven-haired Italian actress with beauty-queen figure, who became Italy's first post-war sex symbol. A number of homegrown films as slinky flirt got her known internationally as "La Lollo" and appearances in Hollywood movies made her a worldwide pin-up. Kept going fairly strongly until the early seventies, although long before that overtaken in popularity by Sophia Loren.

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Lollobrigida was never nominated for an Academy Award.

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Warner Archive: Ladies of the Night and Ava Gardner

By KC on Mar 16, 2016 From Classic Movies

Go Naked in the World (1961) is a glossy, glamorous mass of big feelings. It's obsessed with horrible, naughty, glorious sex. The pre-code era is limping away though, so it's okay to talk about it, and even to indulge in eroticism, but somebody is going to pay. is high-priced pros... Read full article


Happy Birthday: ! Sex symbol of the 1950s.

By Dawn on Jul 4, 2011 From Noir and Chick Flicks

, born 4 July (1927), was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She started out modelling, and around this time, she also began performing in Italian films. In 1950, Howard Hughes wanted her to perform in Hollywood films, but she refused, wanting t... Read full article


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Gina Lollobrigida Quotes:

Robert L. Talbot: I can't understand it.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Ah! That's another thing. If you loved me, you'd have learned my language! But no, I had to do it. The weeks I spent studying... Learning to speak this... Fluid English.
Robert L. Talbot: Not "fluid." Fluent!
Lisa Helena Fellini: Big shock! Knows all the words!


Pharaoh: And how will you destroy Solomon?
Sheba: It is said that Solomon is wise. But no matter how wise he may be, he is still human, with a human weakness.
Pharaoh: Surely the way of a woman is beyond understanding.
Sheba: The way of a woman is simple, my lord. It is always to follow the way of a man.


Capt. Tom Reynolds: You live here with Nikko?
Carla Vesari: I want to tell you something, Captain, and then perhaps you'll let me alone. I live here with Nikko. So why don't you go back to the hills and play with your popguns?


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Joey "The Lips" Fagan's trumpet in the Roddy Doyle novel "The Commitments" is named after her.

Announced on October 19, 2006 she will marry Spanish real state mogul Javier Rigau Rafols, 45. Javier Rigau Rafols, 34 years her junior is quoted to be a proficient photographer and a painter. He met Lollobrigida in Monaco in 1984.

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